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Pretty sure it's a female

angelle

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What's your opinion?
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Can't really tell you how many YEARS old it is. All I can say is it's a mature female. You can't really determine the age of a tarantula unless you're the one who hatched it yourself.
 

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Can't really tell you how many YEARS old it is. All I can say is it's a mature female. You can't really determine the age of a tarantula unless you're the one who hatched it yourself.

Kk. I know shes not full grown. She's in premolt right now. Can't wait to see what she looks like on a fresh molt. I was pretty sure she was a girl though. There was no sign of tibial hooks. But there have been males without them. Also she's a lot larger than a male but who knows. I had never seen her underside until last night. I finally got the nerve to pick her up like that and get a picture of her abdomen. Thanks for confirming what I thought!
 

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No problem. Yeah, not all tarantulas have tibial hooks, but they all have the emboli resembling boxing gloves which are pretty tough to miss.
 

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I'm not sure I've ever even seen a male in person to be honest. I just knew she didn't have hooks, and her abdomen is large than a males usually is, and her sex organs looked female to me. But I'm far from being an expert so I thought I'd ask some folks with more experience.
 

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Rosea is technically the red color phase. People use that name for both often though.
 

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Lol I'm afraid I'm lost. I don't really know anything about the scientific names and Colour phases... So she's not a Chilean rose hair?
I'm not sure if there even is a common name for the normal color phases. Common names are confusing so I don't use them. I believe some consider G.porteri to be simply a different color phase of G.rosea, while others consider them an entirely different species. I think it's still inconclusive however. Basically G.porteri is the normal color phase while G.rosea is the red color phase.
 

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If it's gray on the abdomen and legs and pink on the carapace, then it's G.porteri which is the normal color phase. This is what yours looks to be.
 

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